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... later on Director of the Tank Supply Department under the Ministry of Munitions. The Tanks made their debut at the Battle of the Somme in September, 1916, and on October 1, 1916, Colonel Stern became Director-General of the Mechanical Warfare Supply ...
... resources of modern scientific warfare had been employed. This retreat was the result of the Allied success at the Battle of the Somme, which had driven so wide and deep a wedge into the German defensive system that it was endangered both to north and ...
... of War News see p. 187) Mr. H. Perry Robinson, war correspondent for The Times and author of The Turning Point-- the Battle of the Somme, has written a very interesting account of the war correspondent at work in a recent issue of The Nineteenth Century ...
... Scouts on the Somme, March, 1918 Such a scene as this must have been of frequent occurrence of late days, the watchful soldiers keeping their vigil by the wide, tree-fringed meres In the valley of the Somme British official picture The Somme near Peronne ...
... University in 1913, he was study ing at Oxford when war broke out. He joined the Royal Field Artil lery, served in the Battle of the Somme, and in April 1916 received the Military Cross. R .At 9.30 on the 6th the stalls of the Pavilion ravos an filled with ...
... much truth in the jest, for the particular ma chines which gave us such marked superiority over the Germans during the Battle of the Somme in the autumn of 1916 actually made their first appearance as experimental samples in the summer of 1915, and were not ...
... British Tanks Progressive Improvement and Development of a Midget Type The dramatic appearance of the tanks in the battle of the Somme is now a matter of history. It is T open to question whether it was not an error to bring the landships into action ...
... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...
... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...
... Despatch Runner one of the most trying and dangerous duties of the British Tommy. I took a very active part in the Battles of the Somme, Messines, Ypres and Cambrai, and was fortunate enough to have the Military Medal bestowed upon me for my work as a ...
... 'pres. Sir Douglas Haig has led his troops through the hard fighting of the last two-and-a-half years, through the battles of the Somme up to the great forward attacks which clinched le final victory, the hammer blows which Marshal Foch declared were ...
... fought in every battle and on every front. It is a pity that the reticence imposed by military necessity should so often have concealed the great deeds of these troops. At the end of Sir Douglas Haig's despatch on the Battle of the Somme in 1916 there is ...